Kannada actor-turned-politician Ramya, also known as Divya Spandana, is being trolled for her alleged remark that "Pakistan is not hell" since the past couple of days, The Times of India reported. Apart from abusive messages from the public, Ramya has been reprimanded by Jaggesh, another Kannada actor-cum-politician.
Speaking at an event organised by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) to protest against anti-nationalism, Jaggesh, a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said, "People who have not studied and don't have any experience are praising Pakistan. They should be given a peace prize, maybe a Nobel. They should also be allowed to stand next to Bill Clinton and take photos."
Not quite done, Jaggesh added that those supporting anti-national sentiments are "mosquitoes and bedbugs" and should be destroyed with poison.
Ramya, however, took the negative reactions to her statement, including Jaggesh's, in her own stride.
Ouch! That hurts! 😄 https://t.co/9YJTTevq6E
— Divya Spandana/Ramya (@divyaspandana) August 21, 2016
To photographs of people defacing her image or baying for her blood, she reacted with a quote from the Gita:
"Delusion arises from anger.Mind is bewildered by delusion.Reasoning is destroyed when mind is bewildered"- the Gita pic.twitter.com/Gcedc7XtQg
— Divya Spandana/Ramya (@divyaspandana) August 21, 2016
Ramya, a member of the Congress Party, made the remark on Pakistan while addressing a women's rally in the Mandya constituency, near Mysore, to which she was elected in 2013 in a by-election but lost the seat in the 2014 general elections. She has recently come back from Islamabad, after attending the SAARC Young Parliamentarians Conference 2016.
This is not the first time Jaggesh and Ramya have exchanged heated words. The two had a bitter quarrel earlier when Ramya walked out of Jaggesh's movie Neer Dosa last year.
In 2014, after Ramya lost her seat from Mandya, Jaggesh had accused her of opportunism. "People who degrade cinema after winning election, but say they will act after losing it are opportunistic," he had tweeted.
His reference was to his fellow actor dropping out of Neer Dosa after she won the by-poll, leaving the crew of the movie in a lurch. Ramya had countered the accusation by saying, "I have always maintained that I will not be able to take up new projects, but will definitely finish those I have already committed to." She was later replaced by actor Hariprriya in the movie.
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